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Earlier this month, Sharjah Art Foundation kicked off its summer programming with the two-artist pairing Laila Majid and Inaam Zafar: Body Quotidian. The show will be on view in Al Mureijah Square through September 2026.
Marking its debut this summer, SAF Radio is a new online initiative dedicated to broadcasting music, voices and stories from the region and beyond. Other highlights include the launch of Sunday Cinema Club, a summer film programme at the Photography Gallery. In August, the Photography Gallery will host Vantage Point 13, which commissions new photographic series from six artists selected through an international open call. The autumn will see the return of many of the Foundation’s recurring programmes, including the fifth edition of Perform Sharjah, as well as the ninth editions of both Sharjah Film Platform, a festival of independent and experimental films, and the annual art book fair Focal Point.
Internationally, works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection will be on view in two exhibitions developed with partner institutions. Aranya Art Center Guangzhou is currently hosting In Absence and in Presence: Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection with more than 70 works by 28 artists on display through the end of August. In November, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin will present a selection of works from the Foundation’s Collection that platform artistic practices and commissions from Palestine and neighbouring countries.
Photographic Encounters along the Gulf Coasts remains on permanent display in Gallery 1 at the Photography Gallery.
The Foundation launches SAF Radio, a new online radio platform dedicated to broadcasting music and sound-led storytelling from the region and beyond. Rooted in Sharjah and guided by a bilingual approach to programming, SAF Radio explores how musical traditions continue to evolve across generations and listening experiences, bringing contemporary sounds and emerging creative practices together with select archival recordings from the Foundation's collection. Its inaugural highlight is a seasonal music programme titled Aswaat, conceived as a continuous listening experience shaped by feeling and atmosphere rather than fixed genres. The first season comprises 12 hour-long episodes, each designed as an immersive listen.
Sunday Cinema Club offers weekly film screenings of regional classics, genre films and animated movies. Featured films include Mirai (2018) by Mamoru Hosoda, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick and West Beirut (1998) by Ziad Doueiri. Each screening is followed by a talk or workshop that further explores the film's theme, cinematic language or social background.
Aranya Art Center Guangzhou presents more than 70 works across painting, sculpture, photography, video and textile by 28 artists from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Curated around the concept of land as seen through the perspectives of artists from West Asia, South Asia, Africa and their diasporas, the exhibition follows unique trajectories of artistic practice and experiments in these regions from the 1950s to the present.
London-based Laila Majid and Lahore-based Inaam Zafar come together for this two-person exhibition looking closely at materiality and the images that structure our day-to-day life. Through sculptures, paintings and photographs, the artists explore the silhouettes, colours and tactile conditions that emerge from our everyday experiences.
The 13th edition of Vantage Point marks a new chapter for the programme as it moves into Sharjah Art Foundation's Photography Gallery. Selected through an international open call, six artists—Adam Rouhana, Guanyu Xu, Latifa AlBokhari, Luisa Dörr, Maheder Haileselassie and Sathish Kumar—will present commissioned photographic series developed with the support of the Foundation.
Organised by IMMA and Sharjah Art Foundation, the exhibition presents selected works from the Foundation's Collection that platform artistic practices and commissions from Palestine and neighbouring countries. The exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures, installations and video works dating from the 1960s, with a focus on Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara (1933–2020).
Comprising 165 photographs and archival documents from the collection of His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Federal Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Sharjah, this exhibition brings together late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century glass slides made from photographs of people, places and activities along the Arabian Gulf and Indian Ocean littorals, many of which are being shown publicly for the first time.
Sharjah Art Foundation's season of performances returns this October with the fifth edition of Perform Sharjah, expanding its presence across the cities of Sharjah and Khorfakkan. With a diverse lineup reflecting and celebrating Sharjah's rich cultural fabric, the season will create shared experiences to connect people through art in familiar and unexpected spaces.
The ninth edition of Sharjah Film Platform, the Foundation's annual festival of independent cinema and experimental filmmaking, includes the UAE premieres of a selection of films nominated by an international committee, all of which will compete for the Sharjah Film Platform Awards.
Sharjah Art Foundation announces the ninth edition of Focal Point, Sharjah's annual art book fair, celebrating the breadth and innovation of contemporary publishing. Bringing together a diverse range of printed materials and publications from artists' presses, bookmakers, self-publishers and non-commercial cultural producers, the fair continues to champion experimental approaches to the medium of print.
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